Title: Proposed Creator/Contributor/Publisher Qualifiers

It is important to note that the semantics of the vCard qualifiers is being adopted - not the syntax. Also, vCard supports the use of inline binary content (eg image, sound). We recommend that this type of content be referred to with a formal identification system (eg URIs).

The list below describes each of these qualifiers. They are grouped into higher level categories for convienence.

• Formatted Name (fn) - formatted text corresponding to the name of the entity
• Name Components (n) - the components of the name of the entity. These include:
  • Family Name (family)
  • Given Name (given)
  • Additional Names (other)
  • Honorific Prefixes (prefix)
  • Honorific Suffixes (suffix)
• Organisation (org) - specify the components of the organisational name and units associated with the entity. These include:
  • Organisation Name (orgname)
  • Organisation Unit Name (orgunit)
• Nickname (nickname) - text corresponding to the nickname of the entity
• Photograph (photo) - an identifier to an image or photograph information that annotates some aspect of the entity.
• Birthday (bday) - specify the birth date of the entity
• Title (title) - specify the job title, functional position or function of the entity
• Role (role) - specify information concerning the role, occupation, or business category of the entity
• Logo (logo) - specify an indentifier of a graphic image of a logo associated with entity
• Agent (agent) - specify an indentifier of another person who will act on behalf of the entity

• Address (adr) - specify the components of the delivery address for the entity. These include:
  • post office box (pobox)
  • extended address (extadd)
  • street address (street)
  • locality (locality)
  • region (region)
  • postal code (pcode)
  • country name (country)
  In addition, the type of Address may be specified. These include:
  • domestic delivery address
  • international delivery address
  • postal delivery address
  • parcel delivery address
  • residence delivery address
  • work delivery address
  • preferred delivery address - when more than one address type is specified
• Address Label (label) - specify the formatted text corresponding to delivery address of the entity. In addition, the type of Address my be specified (as above)

• Telephone (tel) - specify the telephone number for telephony communication with the entity. In addition, the type of the Telephone number may be specified. These include:
  • residence telephone number
  • voice messaging telephone number
  • work telephone number
  • preferred-use telephone number
  • voice telephone number
  • facsimile telephone number
  • cellular telephone number
  • video conferencing telephone number
  • paging device telephone number
  • bulletin board system telephone number
  • modem connected telephone number
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  • ISDN service telephone number
  • personal communication services telephone number
• Email (email) - specify the electronic mail address for communication with the entity. In addition, the type of the email address may be specified. These include:
  • Internet
  • X.400
  • preferred-use address
• Mailer (mailer) - specify the type of electronic mail software that is used by the entity

• Categories (categories) - specify application category information about the entity
• Note (note) - specify supplemental information or a comment that is associated with entity
• Sound (sound) - an identifier to a digital sound content information that annotates some aspect of the entity
• Unique Id (uid) - To specify a value that represents a globally unique identifier corresponding to the entity
• Uniform Resource Locator (url) - specify a uniform resource locator associated with entity

• Time Zone (tz) - specify information related to the time zone of the enity
• Geographic (geo) - specify information related to the global positioning of the entity

• Public Key (key) - an identifier to a public key or authentication certificate associated with the entity

• Product Id (prodid) - specify the identifier for the product that created the vCard object
• Revision (rev) - specify revision information about the current vCard
• Sort String (sort-string) - specify the family name or given name text to be used for national-language-specific sorting of the FN and N types
• Version (version) - specify the version of the vCard specification
• Access Classification (class) - specify the access classification for a vCard object

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